Ponder Friends

What is the point in having five or six hundred friends on facebook? How could you possibly “really know” that many people?

Someone I know has a friend they knew before facebook. Seems this friend goes to any friends friends list and adds all their friends. Friends friend doesn't even know many of the people they have added and became friends with. (Sorry, I will not name names or imply genders)

Well, this friend one I know very personally was talking to me about it and it was kinda bugging them. I just smiled.

Friend two, who I kind of know, is one who seems to have a need to know everyones business. Yup, the nosy type. The gossip.

I pointed that out to friend one and also pointed out that by doing that, friend two could keep tabs on all their friends and know exactly what each and every one was up to. And that's twenty four hours a day...

So, is friend two really a friend or are they just one of those people looking for gossip...

The ability to know the difference could be a big help to your own happiness.

It almost seems that everyone has an unsatisfiable desire for love. Is it that desire that lets us grow our own friends list, whether on a place like facebook or even in our personal life?

That desire can be good. When I feel really loved poetry flows out of me. Everything looks beautiful. I can even find beauty and good in things that any other time would trouble me. There is a song in my mind and a spring in my step! Love leads people to be creative and has been the passion behind many great works of art.

But the desire for love can be bad. When that desire is to strong we can end up doing really dumb things for someone we want as a friend. It can easily blind us to the real person behind a nice smile and good looks. Then we can end up in trouble, get hurt real bad or even have our emotions crushed. Love has, throughout history, caused wars. Love has even been the cause of murders...

Love has built families, but has also torn families apart!

But all that love has started from a friendship. Many from friendship blinded by the desire to be accepted by others. The desire to be with someone. The desire for love.

Wouldn't it be better to hold off on becoming more than acquaintances until you determine if that other person is bringing you up or pulling you down...

Making you happy or making you feel blue...

Friends are people that really do care and do good for you...